Persian Proverb Quotes

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out.

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

We're all sinners, every one of us. We've all done things we wish we hadn't.

Only those who are truly aware of their sin can truly cherish grace.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

I'm no angel.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.